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BackgroundThe impacts of air pollution on circulatory and respiratory systems have been extensively studied. However, the associations between air pollution exposure and the risk of noncommunicable diseases of other organ systems, including diseases of ...
Jiangshao Gu+6 more
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A network-based analysis of disease modules from a taxonomic perspective [PDF]
Objective: Human-curated disease ontologies are widely used for diagnostic evaluation, treatment and data comparisons over time, and clinical decision support. The classification principles underlying these ontologies are guided by the analysis of observable pathological similarities between disorders, often based on anatomical or histological ...
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Economic evaluations of non-communicable disease interventions [PDF]
Background Demographic projections suggest a major increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality over the next two decades in developing countries. In a climate of scarce resources, policy-makers need to know which interventions represent value
Fox-Rushby, J, Mulligan, J, Walker, D
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Collagen-based materials in male genitourinary diseases and tissue regeneration
Male genitourinary dysfunction causes serious physical or mental distress, such as infertility and psychological harm, which leads to impaired quality of life.
Fangyuan Li+8 more
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Monitoring the incidence of morbidity and diseases of the genitourinary system of the child population of the Tyumen region [PDF]
The prevalence of diseases of the genitourinary system in children over 9 years. Tendencies to reduce the incidence of morbidity and urogenital system in children since 2006, with stabilization in the last 2 years. The correlation trends in incidence and
Khramova, Е. В.+5 more
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Prescribing antibiotics to preschool children in primary health care in Croatia [PDF]
The use of antibiotics depends on cultural and socioeconomic factors, physician's characteristics as well as on microbiological considerations. Aim of our study was to asses antibiotic prescription among preschool children in primary health care in ...
Bergman-Marković, Biserka+4 more
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Weakly Supervised Thoracic Disease Localization via Disease Masks [PDF]
To enable a deep learning-based system to be used in the medical domain as a computer-aided diagnosis system, it is essential to not only classify diseases but also present the locations of the diseases. However, collecting instance-level annotations for various thoracic diseases is expensive. Therefore, weakly supervised localization methods have been
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A Weighted Heterogeneous Graph Based Dialogue System [PDF]
Knowledge based dialogue systems have attracted increasing research interest in diverse applications. However, for disease diagnosis, the widely used knowledge graph is hard to represent the symptom-symptom relations and symptom-disease relations since the edges of traditional knowledge graph are unweighted.
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Design Multimedia Expert Diagnosing Diseases System Using Fuzzy Logic (MEDDSFL) [PDF]
In this paper we designed an efficient expert system to diagnose diseases for human beings. The system depended on several clinical features for different diseases which will be used as knowledge base for this system. We used fuzzy logic system which is one of the most expert systems techniques that used in building knowledge base of expert systems ...
arxiv
A rare case of clostridium difficile infection-associated reactive arthritis [PDF]
Clostridium difficile is an uncommon cause of reactive arthritis in children. We herein present a rare case of C. difficile infection-associated reactive arthritis (CDIAReA) in a child, who developed severe diarrhea and a knee effusion following a course
Derinkuyu, B.E.+3 more
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